[Paved Paradise]

I bet you the execs will still take home their million dollar bonuses! Man is so sinful. He will cut 1,000 jobs for men who will no longer be able to feed their families, but keep the ONE job of the executive who makes the equivalent of those 1,000 men's salaries so he can maintain his 12K a year country club membership, pay $500.00 for dinners out with his wife and two children and all sorts of materialistic and gluttonous activities. I know why God says it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.

[KevinDavis]

Whatever comrade..

[mongrel]

Except that you have to remember that the salary and benefits for these men in the UAW is around $100k. Not too many execs make $100 million dollars a year.

[dakine]

Envy...

[macamadamia]

I bet you the execs will still take home their million dollar bonuses! Man is so sinful. He will cut 1,000 jobs for men who will no longer be able to feed their families, but keep the ONE job of the executive who makes the equivalent of those 1,000 men's salaries so he can maintain his 12K a year country club membership, pay $500.00 for dinners out with his wife and two children and all sorts of materialistic and gluttonous activities. I know why God says it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.




I'm surprised you didn't fit in the phrases: man's inhumanity to man and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

As for myself, my sympathy gene must have clicked off today. This is union-goon karma at work.

[flashbunny]

hello, michael moore!

I didn't know they had internet access at "the farm".

[Young Scholar]

There is no reason an executive's salary or bonus should have any relation to how much his employees make or how many of their jobs he preserves or cuts. The shareholders should pay him entirely on the basis of what he contributes to their company and its bottom line. There is nothing un-Christian about this view, and any other view is anti-capitalist.

[all_mighty_dollar]

When you say "I know why God says it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven."

I would say you might have slept thru the sermon where a 40% bonus the owner gave the manager and also put him in 'charge of many things.', whereas the unproductive type (union thug?) who made no money, was cast 'into the outer darkness'.
Matthew 25:14-30

One has to be careful whom one identifies with, it appears, to get that chance to be 'put in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'

Link to Sermon 'Investing For God'
Sermon and Liturgy for Ordinary 33 - Year A
I Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30
"Investing For God"
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[The Foolkiller]

Good Words, FRiend. :) Sadly, this is Super-Capitalism at work.

[Ostlandr]

"I know why God says it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven."

There was a postern gate in the walls of Old Jerusalem known as "The Eye of the Needle." While this gate was sized for a man to pass through, if you arrived after the city gates were closed for the night you could still bring your camel into the city. Problem was, you had to unload the camel and he had to creep through on his knees.
So, Jesus was saying that a rich man could enter the kingdom of heaven as easily as a camel could pass through The Eye of the Needle - shorn of all his worldly possessions, and humbled (on his knees.)
(At that's how this CMA Biker Preacher I heard told the story.)